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If you get notifications alerting you about a live match score, some killer online deal that is about to end soon — or any such time-sensitive information popping up in a banner on the home or lock ...

A US senator has asked the Department of Justice to let Apple and Google disclose how governments surveil users through push notifications. Apple says the federal government stopped it from being ...

The year was 2009. There were only two Marvel movies so far, Avatar came out, and Apple was launching the iPhone 3GS. It had a brand-new push-notification system that, among other things, would ...

A couple of years ago, I got a text from a friend that read simply, “This seems bad.” With it was a screenshot of something that did seem, at best, not great: an iPhone push notification from the ...

Notifications from websites are a good idea in theory, but they’re abused incredibly often by sites that try to trick you into flipping on notifications just because they’re not easy to turn off.